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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:01:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496A965F.6050209@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496A451C.5030400@sgi.com>

Mike Travis wrote:
> 
> About the return 0, it was the default return for another error case.
> Should the function panic because it can't read a cpu reg?  That seems
> wrong too.
> 

The only other error case I see is when the value simply is zero by
definition.  This is a memory allocation failure, which is quite a bit
different -- the former is that the query *can't* be answered, the
latter that the query *won't* be answered...

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-12  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-11 14:55 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot Dieter Ries
2009-01-11 15:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11 15:30   ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-11 15:35     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11 15:41       ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-11 18:50       ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-11 19:02         ` Mike Travis
2009-01-11 19:30           ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-12 10:00           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 17:53             ` Mike Travis
2009-01-12 18:55               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15  0:54             ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-11 19:02         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11 19:14           ` Mike Travis
2009-01-11 23:19             ` Mike Travis
2009-01-12  1:01             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-01-12 11:22         ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-01-12 11:26           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 11:28             ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-01-12 12:10             ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-12 12:21               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 16:37                 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-12 18:59                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13  4:45                     ` Michal Jaegermann
2009-01-12 17:22             ` 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot and fails to resume Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-01-14  1:16             ` 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot Rusty Russell
2009-01-14 11:30               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-14 12:47               ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-15 20:01         ` Mike Travis
2009-01-15 21:03           ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-15 21:48             ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-01-15 21:54               ` Mike Travis
2009-01-15 23:04                 ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-01-15 23:31                   ` Mike Travis
2009-01-15 21:54             ` Mike Travis
2009-01-15 23:02               ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-15 23:30                 ` Mike Travis

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